Nanofluidics and Nanofluids

Nanofluidics.

It is a pleasure to present this special issue on nanofluidics. Spurred by rapid technological advances in micromachining techniques, the research field of nanofluidics appeared about ten years ago. Nanofluidics is generally defined as the study of liquid flow in and around objects of 100 nm and less, and the applications thereof. Of course fluid research on this scale had already been studied ...

The nanofluidics and biology group

The projects in this group draw on the considerable experience at CTR in using advanced algorithms and large-scale simulation used to analyze turbulence related phenomena. This group applied these capabilities to two new areas: nanofluidics and biological flows. Nanofluidics plays an important role in biodetectors, tribology, and diffusion through porous media, and anywhere that non-continuum o...

Biomolecular Diffusion in Nanofluidics

Imagine a small integrated biomedical analysis laboratory, connected to your home computer, which would be capable of diagnosing illnesses, a lack of vitamins, or the over-presence of substances from samples of blood, urine or saliva. This hypothetic system would be able to give a diagnosis within minutes, finally advising the user about the optimal targeted medicines to take or the right speci...

Carbon Nanotube Nanofluidics

Transport phenomena in nanofluidics

Reto B. Schoch* Microsystems Laboratory, STI-LMIS, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA; and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, ...